A family summer reading list from Glenview.
Glenview's resident photographer, Jim Campbell has put together another great collection of photos from our annual Church picnic on June 12.
This summer, Glenview is borrowing an idea from the book Flat Stanley and introducing Flat Jesus.
Jesus is with us always keeping watch and accompanying us in our daily lives and on our grand adventures. This summer help our congregation stay connected as we go different directions embarking on trips, going to camp or staying close to home and exploring our city while spending time with family and friends.
It's all in fun. It's an act of discipleship, too. Be sure to come for coffee after the 10:30 service and meet him for yourself. He's for all of us who are young at heart, a great summer traveling companion for Christians of any age.
Take your Flat Jesus wherever you might go this summer no matter how near or far. Take lots pictures of you, your family, and friends with your Flat Jesus through out the summer and post the images on the Glenview Facebook page or email the church school at glenviewchurchschool [at] gmail [dot] com and we will post them for you.
Rev. DeWolfe talked about Flat Jesus during the May 29th service. You can download a Flat Jesus cutout colouring page here. (.pdf to print on light card stock or heavy paper)
A team of volunteers came out to help us on our plant sale pick up day on May 12. A special thanks for everyone who helped to make this a success.
As of this Sunday, the TTC's subway service is now starting at 8:00am, instead of 9:00am.
That means you can now ride the rocket to our 9:00am service. Glenview is a 10-minute walk south of Lawrence station.
The costumes are being fixed. The lines are being memorized. Our annual children’s Christmas pageant is coming together after a dress rehearsal this weekend.
This year’s play is called “Behind the Pageant.” It takes place at the dress rehearsal for a big Christmas production, where some of the characters with the smaller speaking parts realize they don’t really understand the Christmas story they are rehearsing. It is up to other characters to embark on an impromptu re-enactment of the nativity story.
This year’s production takes place on Sunday December 20th during the 10:30am service. It will take place in the Church Hall, instead of the sanctuary.
We have a full gallery of photos from our December 5th Christmas fair now online.
Special thanks to everyone involved in organizing this wonderful event, and to everyone who came out to support it.
Glenview just pulled off one of its busiest Sundays in a while.
After two communion services to mark the start of Advent (listen to Rev. DeWolfe's sermon podcast here) we held an inter-generational Advent festival.
A full crowd came out to make candy cottages to take home, candy-cane grocery card holders for our Grocery Assistance Ministry, as well as a selection of Christmas decorations and Christmas stockings to support Portland Place, Out of the Cold and Meals-on-Wheels.
A photo gallery of the event can be found on Facebook.
After that, our youth group hosted Out of the Cold. You can see photos from that event in the ViewPoint section of our website. Under Kennis Kim and Shannon Wiggan's leadership our youth and friends prepared a nourishing meal that received rave reviews. They shared and learned a lot from our adult volunteers and our dinner guests.
Finally, the day wrapped up with the "Child's Christmas in Wales" concert in the sanctuary. Tom Allen, from Glenview and CBC, read Dylan Thomas' words, accompanied by Lori Gemmell (harp), Sonia Harper Nyby (soprano), Etsuko Kimura (violin), and Peter Merrick (organ and piano).
As our new Senior Minister, Rev. Laurence DeWolfe noted "Great congregation, leadership, youth and children, musicians (in house and guest), all under one roof. This is an extraordinarily talented and energized congregation."
On Sunday, our confirmation class visited the Shaarei Shomayim Synagogue (near Glenvcairn Ave and Bathurst).
Our young members spoke with Avi Levison to learn how Christianity compares and contrasts with other faiths.
The students asked some good questions. For most of them, it was the first time they had ever visited another place of worship.